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Why does a dl.dropboxusercontent.com download link behave differently?
A friend and I share mp3 files through dropbox though I use dropbox.cm and he uses dl.dropboxusercontent.com. The link I send him looks and behaves differently than the one he sends me. He gets a but...
There's no way to specify which domain is used. Different domains are used for different features. You just create a share link (or Public link if you still have a Public folder) and the link generated is the one you use.
- https://help.dropbox.com/share/create-and-share-link#link
- https://help.dropbox.com/share/force-download
- https://help.dropbox.com/share/public-folder
Mod note: edited to update links in post [last updated 2022]
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey tanosaur, sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that this is one of our official sub-domains as listed here and there are no plans to deprecate it at the moment.
We'll let you know ahead of time if anything changes.
On a side note, if you were ever to try doing this with other shared links, you could force them to download using the steps outlined here.
Could you kindly clarify what Rich has previously said on this thread? "He's likely sharing a link from the Public folder, which is a deprecated method of sharing files and only available to older accounts that already had the capability."
Is it that the public share link via dl.dropboxusercontent.com is available to older accounts only, but that there are no plans to deprecate this link and function?
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